Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat

Directing·Mar 2, 1987·Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat (b. 1987, Santo Domingo) is a storyteller from the Dominican Republic. Working primarily on video, animation and drawing. He was granted a full year scholarship at Fabrica, Benetton's Design Research center, in Treviso, Italy in 2013. Tomás received his BFA in Art and Media at Parsons, the New School of Design in 2010. And his AA degree in fine arts, at Altos de Chavón, in 2008. Pichardo's work has hints of magic realism. Evoking the colorful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of growing up in the Caribbean. His world is personal and intimate, with characters full of colors and textures, drawn into situations outside of their comfort zone. Recent solo exhibitions include CasaQuien (DR), Centro de la Imagen (DR) and Fabrica Features (Lisbon, Portugal). And he has had work included in group exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano (Italy), Museum for Contemporary Art, (México) and Annecy Animation Film Festival (France).

Film	Credit
When did we start using passports?2026 · Director	Director
Olivia & the Clouds2025 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
One of the most dangerous men in American history2023 · Director	Director
The Rebel Radio that brought down a war criminal2022 · Director	Director
Can Love and Independence Coexist?2021 · Director	Director
The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp2021 · Director	Director
What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion2021 · Director	Director
Las Mariposas: How Three Sisters defied a Dictator2021 · Director	Director
The Rise and Fall of History's First Empire2020 · Director	Director
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire2020 · Director	Director
El Club de Chichiguas2020 · Actor, Screenplay, Director, Producer	Actor, Screenplay, Director, Producer
El Regreso al Planeta M2020 · Niño, Producer, Director, Screenplay	Niño, Producer, Director, Screenplay
Asterisco2020 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary2020 · Director	Director
Short Stories About Loneliness2019 · Director	Director
Divine Comedy2019 · Director	Director
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god2019 · Director	Director
Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality2019 · Director	Director
Why Should You Read Sci-fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?2019 · Director	Director
Midnight's Children2019 · Director	Director
Waiting for Godot2018 · Director	Director
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder2018 · Director	Director
The 1937 Haitian Massacre2018 · Director	Director
El Camino Interminable2017 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Neuroscience of Imagination2016 · Director	Director
Why It Is So Hard to Live in the Present?2016 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Is graffiti art? Or vandalism?2016 · Director	Director
What is abstract expressionism?2016 · Director	Director
The science of skin color2016 · Director	Director
El Vendedor de Muchachas de Cartón2016 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Who was Confucius?2015 · Director	Director
Solid, liquid, gas and ... plasma?2015 · Director	Director
Malvao2015 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
Cumbia de Piedra2014 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Floating Islands2013 · Actor, Screenplay, Director	Actor, Screenplay, Director
Dante2013 · Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay, Producer
AstroLunar2012 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Línea Confín2011 · Ing. Badessi, Producer, Screenplay, Director	Ing. Badessi, Producer, Screenplay, Director
Where the Bees SleepDirector, Writer	Director, Writer